Media Appearances
Hussein Quoted: HuffPo on Political Islam
Is Political Islam a Threat to the West?
As Hussein Rashid, a PhD candidate in Harvard University’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, remarked, “One thing to keep in mind is that ‘Islam doesn’t speak, Muslims do.’ It is Muslims who define what Islam says and does, within broad parameters. The new generation is engaged, informed, and articulate. It scares the Islamists, because [the new generation] won’t fall for the ideologues.”
Quoted: AltMuslim on Political Islam
Is Political Islam a Threat to the West?
“One thing to keep in mind is that ‘Islam doesn’t speak, Muslims do.’ It is Muslims who define what Islam says and does, within broad parameters. The new generation is engaged, informed, and articulate. It scares the Islamists, because [the new generation] won’t fall for the ideologues.”
UN Press Conference on Muslim Leadership
Recalling the 2006 Copenhagen conference, Mr. Rashid noted the diversity of the participants: “You had various Sunni Muslims, various Shia Muslims — progressive, conservative, liberal, reactionary, if you will — but all coming together at the same table to talk about how we can make the world a better place. And I am really looking forward to continuing those conversations at this conference now.”
Quoted: LoHud Journal News: Hussein is not a Slur
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Hussein Rashid, a Harvard University doctoral student who is from New York, joked that he should take Obama as his middle name.
“I’m old enough to have been through both Gulf wars, growing up with the name Hussein,” he said. “If people are saying ‘Barack Hussein Obama,’ it takes it away from Saddam Hussein. And you know what, overall it’s a positive thing.
“People did mean it as a slur, but we saw after the election that most of this country didn’t see it that way,” he said. “At least my name is not associated with this horrible Iraqi dictator but with our new president- elect.”
Shariah TV (UK): Muslims and the 2008 American Elections
Muslims and the 2008 Presidential Election (More specific link)
Quoted: HuffPo on Swiftboating Material
Swiftboating Obama: Renowned Muslim Scholar Couldn’t Publish Apostasy Response
Shortly after the Op-Ed’s appearance Ingrid Mattson, Daisy Khan, Hussein Rashid, Ali Eteraz and probably numerous other Muslim scholars and writers responded, all noting more or less the same thing: that this is a poor read of Shari’a and that the Muslim world is far too variegated to make such a sweeping statement.
Iqra TV (Saudi Arabia): Young Muslim Leaders
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